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11" l ONS for IN TERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ' - "-LY (Li ti ted) are prepared the to RECEIVE SUB 'ap of C aDitaI LA ' SE CURITIES COMPANY (Limited). t i,00 44, 00 0,010 i n 40, 000 Shares of £5O each, of bi 4t Pre;e7i in 20,000 Shares of £5O each, only to be wo. issued It i st £3 per Share to be paid on allotment , are in all, 2Lrconternplated to call more than £lO per Share th e lPOr Ir r e than £5 per Share, including £3 on allotment, in 1z0 0t .„,,8 Year. -t—ra teet, with Limited Liability, under the Companies' s Act, 1882. o n ' -1, , tarM will be e mad to Parliament, in the next See k,' Act conferring- special powers. Ills fb' DIRECTORS. T he 'ace the Duke of MARLBOROITIIII, Pr . esident. sir of the lnternat'onal Financial Society John " i ,) acting as a Finance Committee. Esq., M.P., Director of the Bank of Ireland. Fo~irrx"ut,e, Per2.-,usson, M.P. J 1 ne bouthwell Greville ESCI *.• AD Charles Dalryrriple Ilay, Bart., al.' • Frßackie, Req , M.P. ,wrece Palk, Bart, M.P. Willic,nty,Stracey, Batt, M.P. • Ilet 4ll ," , r2an, Esq. Dnblin. Nir Y argilhar Ire °,l,a,pray du E b s l q i Farquha", and Co.) John ••. 4, zscOte, • Lloyd, q Esq , Director Lands Improvement flo„'"1. Dn Williamlmprovement Com- Napier, Director Lands ii( ol errY Petre I,o:attailyaries Rich, Bart., Chairman Lands Improvement 13 TWellB ' r'Eq. (Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.) s trr~ gß '" hare ] Bevan,i'll'ArlcaKtoEuß, HANKERS, and Co , Lombard agry London llerries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street, ta3orrBtB' nir'ham SOLlCTotsr,ake, megtreet, { - , olo( ;Dalrymple, and Ward, Parlia- Lor on !' West a ndking, 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, Me ssrs. J olla tti ilunter, Illair and Cowan, W.S., Edinburgh, John Venamata Cant 11 Es Dublin. ulian i,we , ci., ' - "CI., Dublin. It e,„ 1 „ 4 BROKERS. Ilesiv,i .TieYTnotir and Co 34 Throoinort 3n-street. . -1•-• Cazenove and " Co., 52, Threadneedle-street. Inte OFFICES. rllati onal Old Il road- Soc street, E.C. , Temporary Offices The 2, °lcl Palac e - yard, Westm i ns t er, S.W. , tat • uirect Financial th i i,dti l , „Ors of the International . Society, in ` tset tjj'it'uls Prospectus to the Pub- tic 11 attention to ca an illit , L tba , C hasestablished to supply . ,e s , -ed w a - ornpany been es landed property is tp,,neotita.r,tt in this country, where . any the ot tut"e as a fund of credit than in other of the 4 0 e c o ,op e ' nul l , %-"'P'ny * Will ts between re. payabletd the borro act as agen will also estat e at fi xed wer. They make advances. annuities, on landed N is i ? an d 00. ter ms, e _ or by terminable such as county and g of pr t ?rates, a v 7 charge upon land, derpublic or private act . Dl , zu , t lnent , D evied on land under issions of se7ers, im to t i,taeta i,e„-it‘o.yal charters, comm states. towns improve it, rattrta r rges on private trusts,&c. apDitle Foun d cuts, Ip,rb- , ur s have been taken for Act j in n to Parlll7 prel!minary step., er Session for a special it iaxte, , aid 01 .Lalluent in the ensuin . , Illet,„ - daely to 'ne Company's operation , g • and with a view field for the com ta,,llleet , teeure , c, the Comn eh a ;quett, }l' olisiness, provisional and a remunerative ar f an extensive Itro - v ac te e ,„ r i t no "e been made for operations o lii l y'i Ti u , ent eiltexion with securitiescreated for the im- I c m re p a rovements Com oa vq o A l ets of A t t l 4,, under the Lands hihare preference charges * l 4 oli a it 1 1 4*i-r ate 'al - lit, and w e a s he m' o ', l a of the estates. securities thus acquired, the Company tiYa' '' ll -- gae Itive oo ,... alt., e Debenture a N a will ` e ". , , ad 8 7 1 r e ,7, for shorter o r loncrer registrationstrms, Rs Ma Sft will he adoptd -u ebent'eetiv elv ,!_l a system of s from any over-issue of The foes by throtect the lender ella tled 41PallY Company. ture system, will be N r. t o to,..,,aetint; by their Deben ai many times in the 410 pe r i, el'ilLvakr their paid-up. t - ca o• P fund of Z 200,000, be . ng NI:44Z shar e : a .... , ,ed that a Nvorkin, t conduct a business in i ittod4ol 3 era t r o nlid be sufficient o _ lions per annum, an aeo, le ate e ,„ a l ^ o . i three or four mil ount would produce an Ivorki,,whioh, mission upon that a m t ample deductions tor . We 4 - > ci e,Xpe nso l e c __lllaki . nz the, u m d os esill leave a sum avail- oli " tniwidend remunerate,nzeujorete.Tvet the Shareholders fade by tllisnallY hißli se n ale, o as proved by the large Pro i 1 ts they h ive tLands I mprovement Company in the ten yee.rs ueen in operation. „,, e, '' PORI th e ?,,, ,i, OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. blr Tor s of i„Ntiei,„ Lirnited) 51, Old Broad-street, E.C. s of £5O the International Financial Society ;the an',l request you to allot me _ co and I /314„te b,,eo c'eurities Compa - ny (Limite h , Rnd to ent al l , 4 har es rne a TnenlbCr Ot that Compa_n), be allotted to e me, of k , rerii,„'ipThanY I esi nur.ober that tufty be on the hereby the Register eil ibet a 'i, r _ a t m Y nnlne may be pl ]aced I ara, 471:7;41:11:eySohuar r o e bedient servant, Name in full 1, Ol a otted to me. Address in fall Reference Date.... , , ~ ........ • 1 4 A. ti 1 3 Th SECURITIES COMPANY t or att ni ,,_ p ir,, ,„4 ° 1 . 8 (Limited). rd) "" 4 of the International Financial Socie n ty li, ~.1,,,! hit ~,, 24 , kt s ,,.es give notice, that no . further Applications th t k , a) ky . 4,,tie above Company will h. received after ' 40 ra th 'le 2 3d inst. from London, or MONDAY, the e CO? ' By 4, Old order. II WALTER A. MICHAEL, Secretary. aroad-slBtreet 64. fit L A O NDON ITALIAN, AND ADRIATIC XAN ' i . ATION COMPANY, Limited. Lia. bilit);ra un c l e CG panics Act, 1862, whereby le their 'hares ' c't Sh4 Nho r lde o r m s - is limited to the amoun of be o ,i, C aPitai v . 4 '0,000, in 10,000 shares of £5O each. „fit,44 I ), r r shareapplication, and a further payment ac t: l rb e ell l , l on a e l a o t i t Calls not to exceed £5 t p h e: 11 'Xs intervals than three mon . li• —athot, t ra 4 in rn e l' ll' °l4 TP L io t e ci o - ' Bl 4. l , R D E r r rec ° t ß or S• of the China and Japan :..11)131r ector of the Ailt. Qc Dank of ja i n t a 7l:N l u 'a p,: ? t e t t Director of the Royal Mail jaDaniell y. fltm L ta ‘T r nriany . ' Chairman of the Illackwall j li g, Elq . °on S. a rr „ . „ etpo rector of the London and County • T i -ornp ai -AI, Director of the Thames Iron Ship u g hiP O lker ' am era), FBQ essrs. Grinnell, Tinker, and Morgan, do n 'flathort °lnhall-street. `Ax: 4ll arei (Messrs. Ullathorne d .). Lon -oe4tlllorela'n'td'e, -!) urh am, and Start l for j tl a o i n , y A c ' e C o a r o k n s d hi c r o e.. ), r 13f the Iteictili 4ersecdrist. Charles Joyce Limited. Lo a°llll Ball Eeq, ‘4,„ 4esirsinrsi.T(rnilter, Ball, and Co.) .11ra t o 4,1 d Count y 11 A.KEns. tieb Ps , Y Bank,Zi Lombard-street, London, and C rl et' Bank '° ll da tea tala z i, ° l 7 B. o ti t ch a e n s d te L r iverpool, Liverpool. S RAREBRORERS. T: 131118 and Barber, 29, Threadneedle-strect, London. ~,,unt nd Co S hore ands lirk; ]Manchester. Mess rs. 0 . .°' trainber and 8 11a L r ICITORS rison, 20, King's Arms-yard. BtP ERINTENDING ENGINEER. Robert Bowman, Esq. SECRETARY. Te George Grant, Esq. '4)1'0 9 Offices -123, Fenchurch-street, E.C. Th etel l inc h , PROSPECTUS. fNS,-, 3' ',.'s a . " In the Mediterranean trade during the last „'al ; 0 04 i .'" shown by the official returns, amounts r to s i<" t:ryvo which the Italian, Greek, meeti t Po se :„c‘ade 'grgelYcontributed. In order to his increa a et c her 4 41,.0re steam tonnage from London has become tlimal op4rent necessity, the preference by merchants for N t he bi sailing' conveyance for their goods . being such. I „' k hol e .reetor toave no hesitation in stating, that nearly 10 1) r"Tied trade and from the Mediterranean will shortly to ',' llo o ° Y screw steamers. It is calculated th 4 at least l is t l i 'll k nt ? l fine good R are annually exported fr o o n m s L a o re nd a o o n . ThY Importedl Gr eece, while upwards of 200,000 t ; at ' te thi. ec..rors, in resolving to establish this Company, are tten'PlileitallTynrf^z)e_d bsuretyhe - facts—that two lines of screw ''tt 'esult s i r ars been engagedwi an t d h t m he ol t t a s i h k. c o - Phe Its ha t th n the trade between Liverpool t he It 41l an Ix. e learline; merchants in Londonintepested in and ( T N il ow a de, have constantly urged the organisation of °I emit r eece i P r o Posed ; and many of the. merc i han th t e si s n ue l e t e a s ly s cam, e eiltn',4 order to show their confidence n Irery kl requirelee. have offered to contribute towards the Th Dossibi and otherwise to support the Company i tat, obj e „. e Way. 1 -- 'LB, therefore, of this Company arc the establish l'atie Yt a liti ;MI vii' Gq t : of Screw Steamers between . Londonandth to e ten (4,,,bi1,14,,,egh0rn, Naples, Messina, and Palermo, I . o% l ` l 4 n l6 ' ll it a e tir k tlng regularity at intervals of not less than ' ll lea"lP' Granted to the requirements of the trade_b_e e t_w it e e e r n . l a ci - ---4 A driatic, and other ports in the M d ' t l : ; il j jl : l Zi t hat t n n oat 1 1 - . o Perations of the Comn isionally en (100 takn'a Eirretay, the Directors have promy be cora- Jt n i.,"dil, I;P,veqe'ement with the Directors z. i s.'nni t ra ki l k 4 elr four new steamer , u d ra, t o f i f e aAnl existing by 4te lY fl it ' l c', by Ad Venetia, and valuable w Co a n t n e e n x t i e o r n t i m n m th e e . 1 , 11 4 1)44 a p, o rhiCh the shareholders oe to be or s 'p st eit 'on, an ',;tltble business ; i the_ti i shares of the Company. 1i0,,,v to N r aera h a `", r to be accepted 1, 1 . 3 e t?ny, ,!:luild er ,? been expressly n built for the tn t e r s ad o e t , are and the ene aary.Zll ije at by l e= l . l 7audslay, Son,. and Fiel e d n . ee O es. lall ' a ltilt iotim"ee Ziven for the construction of th sh ' 1 14' 1 ,11 oteteamers. t, - ,al:e il l '. , tlg th tt !ced £5 per share, nor e w e ill t t e h o e t y o b t e x in a a s de p a r t W'vhi,:feholdn;_oll:ee months. To th Z t • N.; nter est . 7 Will be entitled to anticipate future cabs, hi' l hqu id a n , ail in. . 1 1 such pre -payments at the rate of 5 per N i tned he-) allottnew., (.‘_lleol,l,,,ottleeiordedne,ttLake place, the whole deposit will be w,caes i`Lt-cin Money ° O l i : other outlay beyond the necessa7 it4.*Y ived In the f u o i ni.;.tion and establishment of tl eie ,„-py ~t thetie Paid. i AOicitornArtiles of Asseciation lies for inspection at -17,Pa4teaticr,-;4fiees and at the Offices of the Company. 0 I.'"ed tt; . ° , l " shares to be made in the annexed form, and N 'ets 0,.`-`l Secretary, at the Company's Offices, or t ' zatikers of the Company. , 1,0/1,.. 4ketttleit: 4o s , Op APPLICATION FOR SHARES. th e tli, To be retained by the Bankers. i ve Steam cetera of the London, Italian, and Adr a Navi Zattuu Company (Limited). YUp e tt t'',01,„,--11aving paid to the Bankers of the above -1%1;4,111 ati P ,,n , Y the sutn of zbe "., to i ten ° , lne shares in the' 441940,pt such shares or any smaller number that ,.. said a li t d e re Company, r ue s t andth may 1 It t to me, an d t... 13 ' ember of the Compa",, Prili„4,lthori.. enonle a ' a the Remster OT :Yr, sl 4 ir - You to place my name on Nit..,. e i n be boundt of the shares to be alloted to me b i s an_d_ n ! 184,e"'„ la tb ,„, by all the conditions and rezulation Ft , P, _ y, ,"etnorandum and Articles of Association of ny 1). 4 . i.,, 4 der provided by "The Companies' Ac t , Ll this day of , 1864. Name Businesso r Profession - Place of Business '._______,i, Address N , , A liii!txpoi. ITALIAN AND ADRIATIC I 4,2 , 1ce li, L ' LL ~AN, IGATION COMPANY, Limite . Iltitl this given that the List of Applications for eeeci'Lths 23P,Cumpany ' 11l be CLOSED on SATURDAY - eked (.4 inst., afterwwhich date the Directors will pro diately to allot the Shares. Corp, BY order of the Board,' k GEORGE GRANT, S e c re t ary. 121 hen e raporary Offices, lehurch t 'lilJalluar t ?' - " e 'Y. 1861. t/WT.. tal,,, b an d t ' il l e Pp r L WOMEN. —Alabaster Powder, '()sti- , 8100 agtietic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir teqhY it Tid pl. Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These. 1, 441' , atm, ninittable toilet preparations render the hair, q, h oti, ?tcplexion beautiful be7ond coißparison.—Can be tit t N tq u ,'‘‘ Alau rne IC% n ts ,, RACHKI2b, 47A, New Bond-street, t,o4l,4"cial.e.o4Sulted daily. All communications are ....--• 00 0 4 ill 61 11/ fct ie j OP P A t ri r tio es 0 0 0 A )r /bo tri, rf 6 re , 0 10 9 , aate_, 3 s cow 0) re d int o , ala if 13.0 0 flit'Dl.. • :11' if for y ~ .ed , 1 ' 6 , tor o f th e cO 6 f OC e 91361' wh it' ? f us 11 0 v" 340 ' I: 3 06 Sy t° ,v. w i l e; l i i „ et Ile, vi 3 6 f.t,; n er a P e t 0 1 rue ; ot , J. OA r l' 0 ~.'s 0 .0" 0 „1 6 )1,01" i Ivo r°C , hte doll; of wif e he , agt oa ' otos , i 4 sop .- dro' Slet t o 00' .1 4.0 0 . Stev e" n ear 1 10 A . el, h . r ilio 001' . a 0° f ow ,' of ter' Oi It; • , o v, so s' fod i a ll, 15 : : rtg 4 to:A P t ' gir let Aer Off far --eci 4 ,„ f V$ l9 0 1 ' SA' S o ' Of OfA CC til e 414) ~~~ ‘d / e THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1864. N°. 22,332 I'URE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and the FLOORCLOTII CARRTAGE-FREE to any house in kingdom, regardless' of amount or distance. First• class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal t o Clergyscien and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select flora, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted CL E i , GYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. 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COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford 'bridge, London, S.E, WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup at EVANS', Covent-garden. STEAM from LONDON to NEW YORK. 'the British and American Steam Naviv,ation Company (Limited) will DESPATCH one of the undermentioned Splendid Fast Screw Steamers TWICE E A.CII MONTH for New York: — Tons. Horse Power. LONDON 2J,00 500 Capt. GLOVER. WESTM ENST ER 2,500 ..... SCO .... Capt. Couch DUBLIN 2 , n00 . 500 . Capt. FROUD. NEW YORK 2,500 500 apt. HARRIS. The New Bridge at Blackfriars, I7INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. This celebrated Old WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at These magnificent vessels are unsurpassed by any ocean going steamer, and have accommodation for passengers re plete witn every comfort. The Line will commence early in March ; the exact date to be fixed in a fatter announcement. To load in the Victoria Docks. For freight or passage apply to the Company's Agents, Alfred Laming and Co., 70, CornhilL 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ",Kinahan's LL Whisky." T HE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). No. 4, ABCIIURCII-LANE. Capital £1,000,000. INIPEItIAL LIFE INS UR INCE COMPANY. No. I, Old Broad-street, Lundon, E.C• Instituted 1820. EDWARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. MARTIN TUCKER SMITH, Esq., M.P., Deputy-Chairman. Insurances effected before the 31st .January, 1861, will be entitled to Three Years' Additions in the Profits to be de clared in 1866. DIRECTORS. George Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Constable and Wykes), Mincing-lane. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helen's. William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wm. M'Arthur, Esq. 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Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 150 horse power (nominal), having completed the alterations to her engines and machinery, and made ready for sea, was yesterday taken out of Chatham harbour to the Nose, for the purpose of testing her rate of speed at the measured mile, Maplin Sands, before being finally handed over by the dockyard officials to the first-class steam reserve, in 'earli ness for commission. On the occasion of the Recruit being taken on her last trial trip she proved in every respect a complete failure. A maximum speed of only about four or five knots an hour was obtained, and the paddlewheel floats were at the same true so deeply immersed in the water that it was considered useless to attempt to continue the trials. Indeed, from the way in which the vessel laboured during her trial a strong feeling of relief was felt by all on board on the steamer being safely brought up at anchor. Since the trial alluded to the Recruit has been very considerably lightened by the removal of some of her heavy stores, toge gether with two of her 32-pounder 56cwt guns. She has still, however, the whole of her six months' sea stores on board, with the exception of her provisions. With 'JO tons of coals in her bunkers at starting yesterday, together with about 120 tons of machinery and boilers, 40 tons of water, and about 30 tons of anchors, cables, &c., the Recruit drew Sit 4in aft and Sft Sin forward, and thus being on as nearly as possible an even keel she was not in the test trim to make her trial. Chatham harbour was left shortly after 9 a,tn., the officials on board being Capt. W, It. Hall. C. 13., com manding the steam reserve in the Medway, who superin tended the trials ; Mr. J. Biker, chid engineer at Chatham dockyard, and inspector of machineryafioat ; Mr. Hutchens, assistant master shipwright; and Mr. Rumble, chief engi neer in charge of the steam reserve squadron. The Recruit was navigated to the trial ground by Mr, Blakey, second master and Queen's 'pilot, and the engines were in charge of Mr. J. H. Brettal, principal engineer. Captain 11. F. M.Killop was also on board during the trial, for the purpose of testing the new cofferdam or portalle dock recently in vented by him, and submitted to the Lo'ds of the Admiralty. On reaching the trial ground, six runs were made over the measured mile with the following result; :—First run, time 5 min 35 sec., speed in knots 10146 ; number of revolu tions 33; second run , 6 min 20 sec, speed 9.474 knots, number of revolutions 33; third run, 5 min 20 sec, speed 11.25 knots, number of revolutions 321; fourth run, time 7 min, speed 8.571 knots, number of revolutions 32; filth run, time 5 min 1 sec, speed 11.96 knots number of revo • lutiens 32; last run, time 7 min 2 see, ;peed 8.531 knots, and number of revolutions 322. From hese figures it ap coals, stores, &c„ on board, is 10'179 lends per hour , w hich piseaarsfathirat the rate fmoreaan vessel l ge speed of the Recruit, with he r of her clan: and dimensions. On the occasion of her former trial, on th? 9th of July last, the Recruit attained a mean speed of P. 508 knots, the slight loss during her yesterday's trial resulting from her increased displacement and the quantity o' stores on board. The mean pressure of steam was 221 b, and the vacuum 25. The temperature on deck was 44 deg, in he engine-room 96 deg. The weather was favourable for the trial, there being a slight breeze from the southward vith a force of 3. At the close of the official runs at full steam a couple of runs were taken with two of the boilers ctt off, when the sec, equal to r speed of 1 0.651 firstkno mile ts, an wdtahs run in e second S m ni il i : 3 i4 8 9 min 42 see, giving a speed equal to 6 186 knots. The average speec at half boiler power was 8.418 knots, with 26 revolutions of the engines and 26th of steam. The Recruit is fitted with a rudder at both stem and stern, which thus enables tor to be steered elplerra of rather loss than 200 yards, in 3 in either direc tion. Some trials were according l y made to ascertain her cap abilities of ma king a circle when bo th rud ders Each helm was accordingly deg. by two m e n; when at hardplay, Each Sport, the complete circle hbmwraf egaiolasut2uphoretnse were oede cvd b , . erairo in u n t( :o g a w h ad itn the inaiganmnttehogo the lat eness of the h our a t whichte layff d the trials to ascertain the speed of the vessel was completed, it p. i‘,ji t s found impossible invention,impossibletoc which had been i arrhyoutthe experiments onntswith Cast. the side of the steamer in readiness for use had time allowed. the public trials wore accordingly postponed until Satur day, when they will take place in the presenoo of various officials. The Recruit was handed over to the steam re serve at the termination of the trials, and will, it is stated ; be shortly commissioned to relieve the iron paddlewheel steamer Weser, 6, 150 horsepower, Commander Johnstone, now in the Mediterranean. yesterday it was rumoured at Pl y mo uth that the E d g ar, Black Prince, Wa rrior, and Defence, which left Gibraltar on the 13th, are to ren dezvous at Lisbonun T t a il es f u day rth , er fr o o r m ders. The eu,dßio r g 6 50 30 N th ' , in lat. 31 19 N; CsJI ana.iJaneiro,. isr ytor again,yoliesailed i Industry,l witho,naalr f fsre screw riwovemdednl tsasidot ea t invalidsi l e ys r o e pun i s i and h orning then din FP, M aster Commander Ed. a d 22 d Nov., 1863. On the from Wo o l w ich. The cargo of old stores, and on long. 31 24 W, 2 the 9 Hamburg t h December s she h ip Orient. spo k e n long. 31 44 W, th e B remen ship Helena, from Callao for Cowes for orders. Th e following appoint ments were mad e on Wednesday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. the Hon. Victor A. M onta gu to the Racoon —Anthony G. F. Gordon, L. H. Eliot, and W. , i and la t. on 2 the Bristow, naval cadets, to the Hector—Philip E. :Cresswell, Edmund Hannan], Fred. G. J. Lillingston, and John D. Kirkness, naval cadets, to the Prince ;Consort—Cyril W. Cole, Edward Ramsay, John H. O'Brien, Josh. W. S. Jekyll, Alex. K. 13. Granville, and Richard F. Warden, midshipmen, to the Prince Consort—Henry Crawford, F. I'. de Lisle, and Art hur H. Bollero, midshipmen, to the Hector----W. Curtin, chief engineer, to the Fisgard, addi tional for the Niger—and Charles Beal, chief engineer, to the Fiegard, additional for the Spiteful. 1 The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. S. Re Henderson, to the Victory, for service in the Urgent—Dr. A. 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The intricate, yet beautifully arranged web of scaf folding raised for the erection of the temporary and the railway bridges has much decreased the scour of the river through the arches ; it so far has checked any tendency to further settlement, and, perhaps, the old bridge has more chance of standing now than it has had for the last 25 years. But it is not a safe rule to calculate too closely in these matters, so Mr. Cubitt has hurried his plans forward for completing the temporary bridge at once, that the old high-shouldered structure may be closed in April and re placed with a far wider, stronger, and infinitely handsomer structure as soon as possible. The great engineering works now in progress at Black friars always command a somewhat large and apparently deeply interested body of spectators, who from the old bridge survey what is going on beneath them hour by hour as lung as daylight lasts. To the ordinary spectator it is a curious and rather bewildering scene, a web of piles and ties, a singular two-storied mixture of iron and wood, with glimpses through the network of deep round iron cylinders, like those used for soap boiling, pushed far down in the bed of the river, being filled up with masonry. In the nooks and corners of the great framing lurk steam pile drivers fussily busy, driving great balks of timber down into the London clay, while overhead the travellers are crawling slowly to and fro with blocks of granite, masses of iron, besets, girders, or whatever else they may have seized upon, and crept off with till they are claimed with a hail from below, and lowered to their proper places in the structure. This is what can be seen from the old bridge, but the as pect is very different from the works themselves. There nothing is in the way or out of the way. The tangle of scaffolding reveals itself under proper inspection, and we see at once that, as in a spider's web, there is not a fasten ing without a purpose—nowhere is there one more or lees than is required, and everything, from the largest iron girders to the smallest fastening, has its own special work to do, and will do it when the time comes. Looking towards the east from the old bridge two bridges are now being built, and both by the same engineer, Mr. Cubitt—one the great four-line bridge for the London, Chatham, and Dover, of which very little can now be seen; the other lofty tier of scaffolding is the temporary structure which is happily to replace Blackfriars in a couple of months or so. This, as the first temporary bridge we have yet seen over the Thames in London, and for its own intrinsic merits, as a very simple, yet immensely strong contrivance in scaffolding, merits some notice. Its length is 990 ft from wharf to wharf, and it is built in two stories; the lower one is 26ft wide (the width of the old bridge roadway) ; the upper storey is raised 16ft above this, and consists of two footways, each 9ft wide, the width of the footways in the present bridge being only 7ft. The lower storey is for the carriage traffic, the upper for pedestrians, and the four feet extra width of footway given to the latter is to accommo date the loungers on either side who are sure to pass much of their time in looking over at the progress of the works beneath. This scaffolding, though called a temporary bridge, is in reality a permanent structure as far as strength is concerned. It is only temporary in the sense that it is not built of durable materials, such as stone or iron. The lower piles are driven 10ft into the bed of the river ; the staying piles which carry the roadway are only 18ft from centre to centre longitudinally—those laid transversely are only 7ft apart. All these, too, are braced together with horizontal and diagonal bracings, and, in fact, even as far as the woodwork is concerned the whole is built of consider ably greater strength than ordinary wooden viaducts for railways. This bridge has three openings for river traffic, each of 70ft span. These are formed by two girders, Oft deep, with ordinary transverse girders between. They are already nearly all floored with wrought iron buckle plates, and for the future traffic are to bo covered with asphalt and paved with wood. The gradient of this temporary road will be exactly that of the new bridge when finiehed—that is, a rise of lin 40, instead of as at present lin 22—an in cline only less dreadful than that which stops the traffic up Holborn-hill. The approaches to the foot bridge, as being taken up to a high level above the roadway, will be touch more steep—no less than linlo on either side. To make these easily practicable to pedestrians it will be necessary that in wet and frosty weather such timber slopes should be well sanded, or they will be almost insurmountable. This steep gradient is only continued to where the footpaths going and coming from each side meet the road traffic above, whence they are continued across the river at al most a level. Yesterday this temporary bridge was tested by a mass of iron weighing 36 tons being drawn slowly acmes the greater part of the carriage-way. Under this severe test not the slightest yield or complaining among the tim bers could be detected, though the strain was certainly more than double what is ever likely to come upon a single part of the bridge at any one lime. This was a test for strain only ; the next will be for vibration, when a weight of six tons will be drawn rapidly over it, in order to counterfeit, as far as it is possible to do so, the rapid, reckless driving of one of Pickford's heavy vans. Under this last test a good deal of vibration is sure to be found, but that in mere wooden structures, which, as it is said, "give and take so much," will be of little consequence so long as no lateral sway of the whole fabric takes place. In April it is hoped to be able to open this bridge, when the old one will be at once closed, and the work of removing it to make room for its grand successor be urged on with all rapidity. The new bridge, which is to occupy the site of the old one, will be as great an improvement upon that which now cumbers the river, as Westminster is upon the heavy, dan gerous, and steep pile of stones it at last superseded, with so much benefit to the public. The improvement that will result from the change, looking at it only as a question of accommodation for the public, may be seen at a glance by a mere comparison of dimensions. The width of the roadway of the old bridge is 26ft; the width of the new roadway will be 45ft, Old Blackfriars has two pathways of 7ft each ; new Blackfriars will have two of 15ft each. The gradient of old Blackfriars is i in 22ft—of the new, 1 in 401 t, or the same as new Westminster, which on the surface it will en tirely resemble, except in being 4ft less wide over all. It is to be built in five spans or arches' : the two next the shore being of 155 ft span each, the two next those, again, 175 ft span, the centre arch having a stretch of 185 ft. These arches will be all of wrought iron—the piers ore which they rest of Aberdeen and red polished granite, with orna mental cornices and capitals of Portland stone. The total length of the proposed structure from ena to end is 1,170 ft., its width extreme from point to point of piers, 130 ft; its height from high water, 361 ft, and from foundation to parapet, 81ft. The waterway under the arches will be 845 ft, as compared with the present water way of 769 ft; its headway under the arches will be 25ft, and though Oft lower in height than the present structure, it will double the accommodation to river traffic under it, owing to the elliptical shape and somewhat flat crowns of its arches. The style of the whole is to be what is called Venetian Gothic. Tho two outside ribs of the ironwork that will be seen from the river will have open lattice span drils of wrought iron, ornamented at their junctions with bold gilt flowers. The ribs beneath this will be in five joints, of great depth and strength, and similarly orna mented, but on a larger scale. In the centre of each arch will be hanging shields, gilt and emblazoned. Over the latticework will be a moulding, carried on concave brackets, enriched with broad graceful leaves of foliage, while above, all will come the balustrade of the footways. This latter will be exceedingly handsome. It will be formed of an open arcading of cast iron, each of the small columns which support it having highly enriched foliatd capitals of the most varied designs, though all in strict keeping with the style and intended general effect. Above these columns, the cornice, so to speak, of the balustrade will be pierced in trefoils with a kind of moulded string course to resemble a sort of handrail above all. This balustrade will be 34ft • high, and all its beautiful proportions and detail of design have evidently been studied with the utmost care, and certainly with the utmost success. The spaces between the many separate ribs which go to form each arch will be built over with buckle-plates, and the usual bed of asphalt and atone pitching pavement laid above all. So much fur the ironwork. With the stone, as might be expected, higher efflorts are made at ornamental details, and, in an architectural point of view, are made with even more success. There are to be four stone piers, each 130 ft long by 20Ift wide, and 35ft high from Trinity level. As framed to admit of construe tt ihoen adiecolour, s ign as th e e sP m " a 'i s alY o l nry used hero will the blue gray granite of Aberdeen, red polished granite columns, with bases and capitals of richly-carved white Portland steno. To begin, however, with the construction of the piers. They will, like all bridge foundations of the present day, be built in wrought . -iron caissons. Seven caissons will be re quirede—sei nwill t the L f o e n r edeoln down 1 , i t : 2 f a o e l t t: e V h o e w n t f t h h o er e y be ea de e h a o n fp be ethre. g ri o Tv t ehr no lower they will be laid at the with bricks or masonry, but it is to be hoped the latter. n e i c d r e e d t o w , a h n e d t builtwhether they up are itis to o e tillb be they e a fi r o il isAo in size) will be laid, and be continued up in the centre to where Four the iron arches rest; but on the external face of the pier,— that°t n u f l o e te feet with b et e decided is, on each end that can be seen from the river, they low water the blocks of granite (all of great will rise apparently to the level of the balustrade. On the --/;-,-, , PRICE ..4d. STAMPED ....sd. end of each pier, and rising from a bold rich pediment o carved white stone, will be a column of polished red granite, 7ft in diameter and 12ft in height. This will be surmounted by a gigantic capital of carved white stone, and this again with what we may term a cornice deeply cut and rich in its design. Above all will be the massive ornamental parapet of white stone, partly pierced in bold yet simple designs, and this latter will form the balustrade surrounding the wide recess above each pier. It is difficult to speak too highly of the general effect of these piers as they will be seen from the river. There is a simplicity, a massiveness, and dignity in their whole proportions, and the effect of their colour contrasts will be so striking that no merely verbal description can do them justice. When the piers are all finished the pressure on the foun dation will be only four tons per foot, or not much more than half the pressure on the foundations of large ware houses. The ironwork will, of course, all be tested before it goes up, and before the bridge itself will be opened ; but it is almost not too much to say that the second testing in place will be a mere matter of form, for the sectional area of all the girders has been designed to be about seven times stronger than any strain than can ever come upon it in the reasonable course of London daily traffic. One most ornamental and novel feature in the new bridge deserves especial mention, both for its own merit and for the praiseworthy liberality and good taste the corporation have displayed in granting this extra expense for purely decorative purposes. At both sides and at both ends the new bridge is to have a wide and noble flight of steps lead ing to the waterside. But, unlike other bridges, which ge nerally have their parapets tapering away into insignifi cance at their extremities, the balustrades at either end stop short and terminate in four bold massive pediments about 25ft high, somewhat similar to those which terminate theledustrades at London bridge, but far more lofty in size and noble in proportion. Once seen in design and it was impossible for any architect or engineer of taste to resist surmounting them with groups of statuary, and this Mr. Cubitt boldly did, and included the price of the bronze groups in his estimate for the whole bridge. Though these are, after all, mere supplementary ornaments, without which no doubt, the bridge, as a bridge, would do quite as well, yet the corporation, to their great honour, did not take this narrow view of it, but, regarding the statues only as a splendid finish to their splendid work, almost unanimously granted the £16,000 required for the four groups. All these are to be equestrian statues in bronze, and 20ft high. Three of them are already decided on—her Majesty, with Queen Elizabeth, at one end, and King Alfred, and most probably Edward the Black Prince, as the first and most renowned of our Princes of Wales, at the other. The cost of the whole work, including the temporary bridge, is only £265,000, which is at the rate of £3 per foot super, only about is a foot dearer than Westminster bridge, which still enjoys the honour of being the cheapest and as yet the mast beautiful that spans the Thames. There is only one great drawback on Mr. Cubitt's bridge, but this, unfortunately, is a most serious destroyer of its beauty. It is that the equally fine bridge which is being built for the Chatham and Dover line is so close to the site of new Blackfriars that from no point of the river can a view be got of one structure without the other also appearing and spoiling it. The distance between the two is only 150 feet —a mere nothing in perspective. The spans of both are the same, bat the railway is a level bridge and the city struc ture is arched, and situated as they are, apparently almost touching, one most effectually kills the other. In these days of metropolitan railways the Chatham and Dover bridge (which is a wonderful structure of its kind) must, we suppose, be regarded as a necessary evil. But, neces sary as it may be, it is cordially to be wished that it was anything but alongside the site of new Blackfriars. The latter will really be a noble structure, and will add still further to the character the Thames enjoys above all other rivers in the world for the grandeur and beauty of its bridges. THE PROPOSED PRITSSIAN LOAN, BERLIN, lan. 19. The report of the Committee of the Chamber of Deputies upon the loan demanded by the Govern ment has appeared. 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Four Dozen Wine sent Carriage Freo. 14, Bloomsbury-street, 4 doors south of New Oxford-street. question will be examin ed by the Diet u nndecl a co-operation." f p:o44 The Minister-PresideSt replied ,„ „ A";' 41LN "His Majesty spoke of an examination, net 'o.l\kt lN - 1----<" . ' decision. The position of Pr ussia as a great Po required that she should indep2ndently examine ,ta every resolution of the Diet, but not submit herself to every decision—a view which, under other cir cumstances, would be approved by the majority of the Committee." Referring to the words immediately following the above passage in the Royal speech, "and I can not anticipate the results of that examination," the Minister continued : NE \N . S P 11 " The competence of the Wet to &cid() the snc cession question was by no means admitted. If the Confederation was a union of soverrign SI- R tes., the full sovereignty of each State continued in all things, where not expressly limited by the Federal treaties. Federal treaties contained no stipulations from which this competence was to be, dcduced. Unques tionably the Federal D:et was entvled to decide, after examining the legitimation of a representative, whether it would admit him or not; bat from that point to sovereign decision of the right of succession in a Federal country was a wide lelp. Let any ore mention a precedent in which the Di at had decided upon the rights of claimants of a sue!ession, and is which it had undertaken to remore eno end instal another. Nobody could wish to controvert tt.e competence of the Diet to examine the right of succession in a disputed case; but it would have to conduct that examination with the utmost caution, that its results might be tenable before the European forum. Lastly, he could assure them, as wpm a for mer occasion, that mistrust between himvalf and the Chamber of Deputies should not be mutual. It was his wish to enter into the matter with the meats legally granted by the house. It these should be refused, he should take them wherever he could." Thexehpen the report of the Committee aL:iritst• that expressions of this character require zo com ment, but that it was their duty to state the in fluence which these declarations ought to exercise upon the vote of the house. According to the views of the Government, the house would run the danger " that the supplies granted to•day for the fulfilment of Federal duties would be tomorrow applied by the Government to obstruct the resolutions of the Diet." The declarations of the Minister-President cast aside German nationality and common inte rests equally with regard to right. He considers the binding force of a treaty not to depend upon its contents or upon the good faith of its contractors, but upon the question how many bayonets will be set in motion for it. From this point of view it would be just as consistent for the Ministry to dis regard even the justest resolution of the Diet on account of the military weakness of its originators, as when it patiently accepts illegal measures of the great Powers on account of the superiority of their armies. The report goes on to refate the arguments of Herr von Bismark seriatim, commenting severely upon each, and recommends, by the unanimous vote of the Committee, the refusal of the loan. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE question. The declarations made in the Committee by Herr von Bismark upon the position of the Government are of especial interest. They may be summarised as foliewe ,‘ Up to the present time it has not been the inten 'ion of the Government to proceed upon any other basis than that of the Diet. This, however, by no means excluded the possibility of an independent advance,..if the proposition of Prussia should not be eupported by a majority at the Diet. It was his duty, as Minister for Foreign Affairs, to place Prue elan interests in the first rank, not the interests of another dynasty or of any other nationality. It could not be admitted that the collective strength of Prussia and Austria—the Powers who protected the glass-house of the German State system from European attacks—should be disposed of by a majo rity which possibly did not represent two millions and a half of population. So long as the separation of territories in Germany held good, so long might German commercial interests and the like be spoken of, bat no German interests in politics. In that regard he could only recognise Austrian, Bavarian, &c., interests. "He considered the question of Prussia's entire withdrawal from the London Treaty rather a ques tion of opportuneness than of right. Only those deductions from right had force which one possessed the power to carry out. It was a common error to imagine that the right of States was found by law yers, not made by treaties. It was an awkward thing to measure treaties by the mere standard of justice. The Committee should recollect the Treaties of Vienna, which contained much injustice, and yet had constituted the basis of the European State system for nearly 50 years. They should recollect Poland ; remember the curtailment of Saxony, whose King was punished merely because, being the only monarch in the power of Napoleon, he had been unable to join the Allies. "If the German deductions of right in the Schles wig-Holstein matter were declared to be perfectly clear and transparent, as had been remarked in the Committee, and opposing opinions were stigmatised as 'threadbare sophistry' and ' hole-and-corner arguments,' he would only observe, in place of all criticism, that hole-and-corner-arguments,' when supported by a majority of European bayonets, usually gained the day. In the question of oppor tuneness our relations to the Duchy of Schleswig played an important part ; for as soon as we with drew from the London Treaty, the cognate treaties of 1851-52, and therewith all claims to interference, fell to the ground. From the moment of withdrawal from the London Treaty, therefore, the Duchies were shown different roads, and then the question immediately started into importance whether the Confederation had a right to conquer a non- German country—Schleswig—from a German Prince. Such a right of the Confederation could never be de duced from Federal treaties, which were merely f or mutual assistance. Were such a capability ac cepted, it would follow that the Confederationrussi should have restored Neufchatel to the King of Pa an have reconquered for Austria her birthright in Italy. imparted In case of a withdrawal from the London protocol, Denmark could at once incorporate Schleswig. The Ist of January of this year, to which period he had think of the des faorn7wallsyh shape f e e r t o r el: as o c decisiveenlagas d o certainly great German ;ofletthetbAeuCstt)rmiaulnitathede P on r l u y ssian Ambassadors P pa o r w tu e r r e s from Copenhagen, and of the collective motion brought in with reference to that date upon Dec. 28, which held out the prospect of eventual occupa tion of Schleswig. The Diet had come to no resolu tion as to ejection' of the hereditary Prince of Augustenburg. The motion of the presiding Power (to request the Prince to leave the country) had been met by seven affirmatives, five negativee, and four votes desiring to convey the request in thereupon, the been form of a wish ; and the motion had, re ferred to the Committee. Tho Prussian represen tative had voted in the affirmative without instruc tions, but in perfect conformity with the wishes of his Government, because the presence of the Prince obstructed the action of the Federal Commissioners, and was injurious to the authority of the Diet." A member of the Committee asked how these ex pressions were to be reoonciled with the passage of the Royal reply, which stated, " The succession MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE. The report of the directors of this company states that the total revenue of the past half-year from all sources amounted to £364,429, the total expenditure to £179,495, and the balance of net profit to £184,934, which, with the balance of £6,474 from the previous half-year,' gives a total sum of £191,408 available for interest and dividend. The debenture and other interest chargeable against the revenue of the half-year amounts to £61,118, the canal annuities to £14,143, and the dividends on the various classes of prefer ence stock and shares to £81,263, making a total charge of £156,525, leaving a balance of £34,884, out of which the directors recommend that a dividend be paid at the rate of 11 per cent, per annum on the ordinary stock of the com pany, leaving a balance of £5,483 for the next account. The traffic receipts, as compared with the corresponding period of last year, show an increase of £27,877. Ihe total local traffic amounts to £163,311; and the foreign traffic to £150,509, making £316,820. The dues, wharfage, &c., of the Grimsby docks for the past half-year amount to £5,454, against £4,123 for the cor responding half of 1562, showing an increase of £1,331. T)_:e quantity of coal shipped in the half-year was 57,929 tons, against 68 ; 784 tons for the same half of 1862, showing en increas3 of 19,145 tons. The company's share of the net profits of the South Junction Railway ~nlOll/its to £8,957, as against £8 47, showing an increase of £BlO o,er the corresponding period of last year. The revenue of the canals shows an increase of £1,832 as compared with the corre sponding period of last year. The effect of the consolidation of the working of the canals with that of the railway has been satisfactory. Although the receipts of the canals have been increased by £1,832, the working expenbes, which in clude £1,122 in reduction of the suspense accounts, have been diminished by £2,897, showing an increase of net pro fit of £4,729. The directors regret that the Garston and Liverpool Railway is not Set completed, as they had anti cipated. The expenditure on capital account during the last half. year amounts to £238,650, of which £151,470 is for subscriptions to other companies, £18,560 for works and stations, and £30,018 for new rolling stock. The capital account shows that £10,341,788 had been received, and 1 £10,151,451 expended, leaving a balance of £190,331. The Murder of a Wife by,her Husband near Leominster, The facts relating to this shocking murder have already been briefly stated. More full details have since come to light. On Monday evening a working man named Lippett, proceeding along the road in the parish of Hennor, near Leominster, hearing a low moan on a path leading across a field, at once went to the spot, and had only gone a few yards along the path, when he was alarmed at a ghastly spectacle—a woman lying on one side of the path in a pool of blood. Her body was also besmeared with it, and every thing indicated that she had been foully murdered. Appalled at the sight, he at once rushed to the mansion of Captain Stevenson, which is close by, and cold what he had seen. He then ran to Hamnish, and acquainted Mr. Vale, the parish constable, with what he had seen. A cart and horse were procured at once, and Vale accompanied Lippett to the spot where the woman was lying. On examination they found several frightful gashes on the top of the head, one of them so deep that the brain protruded. These was another terrible wound of a similar description at the back of the head. There were other bruises, and the skull seemed beaten to pieces. The head and face were covered with matted blood and brains. An apron was at once tied round her head, and she wasoonveyed to the workhouse at Leominster. The surgeon of the workhouse was in immediate attendance, and everything possible done to relieve her, but she d ied at 11 o'clock on the following evening. The nurse sa heard her say " 0 dear 1" once. During the day the unf id she ortu nate victim of this outrage, Mary Watkins, who was a strong r obust woman about 3 0 years of a g e, and the mother of three children (one illegitimate), had been out washing for a per son in Harmer, and had left for her home about 6 p.m., and nothing more was seen of her till she was discovered by Lip pett. Circumstances which have transpired leave but little doubt that the perpetrator of this cruel murder is the de ceased's husband. Not long after marriage he is said to have discovered her with another man, whe n a fierce quarrel en sued. This an d other immoralities led to his leaving her and enlisting in the Royal Marines. In July List he deserted and returned to Renner, but appears to have wandered about, sleeping in barns, die., afraid to go to his wife, lest she should inform against him. He has been heard on seve i ral occasions to threaten her with violence. When last seen he was noticed to have clogs on with iron plates at the bot tom, and on the path where the murder occurred there were marks of a person wearing clogs walking up and down seve ral times. He is a smart man, about 28 years of age, but bears a very indifferent character. He has decamped, and the clogs have been traced a long dist‘nco, but be has not yet been captured. CHURCH CLOCYS.—" A more splendid and exquisitely finished piece of mechanism we have never seen."—Standard. Clocks by the first artists of the day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library, ball, staircase, bracket, car riage, church, turret, railways, warehouse, counting bousu, musical, and astronomical. Church and turret clocks spe cially estimated for. Benson's Illustrated pamphlet on clocks, flee by post for two stamps, with descriptions and prices, enables those who live in any part of t. , e world to select a clock, Also a short pamphlet on cathedral and public clocks, free for one stamp, Prize medal and honourable mention in classes 33 and 15. J. W. Benson, 33 and 34, Lud gate-hill, London. Est ablishad 1749. watch and clock maker, by special warrant of appointment, to 1T.8.H. the Prince of Walls. ALKALOIDS, NOT ED BY CIMIISTS.—Apir ine is found in the Cocos lopirlea, belladoninc in the leaves and twigs of belladonna, capsxine in the p,,recarp of the opsi cam, crotonine in the seeds of croton. n amed A STARTLING DISCOVERY. ---A wornan t ed 9 nes p day lace Harley was drawing water from a well Iv ° called Duck-lane, SAgley, Staffordshire, o detached morning, when the bucket became acciden tanii pr ocured a hook from the chain, and fell in t o the water. Stre bucket, but first brought up a heavy pa rcel. This and endeavoured to regain possession of being opened was found to contain the dead bo dy of a chi ld, a pp arently about its body, and there wcre ten days old. A brick was t i ed to ommitted. A coroner's i n di ca tions that a m urder had been c i n quest on the body will be held to-day (Friday).